A NOTE ON
SULPHUROUS
By Robert I
recently
have
used
Bird,
ACID.
M.D. in
sulphurous acid,
cases
where the
temperature of the body was abnormally high, with a result. A fall in the measured heat of the tissues has
over 24 hours ammonia and sul-
followed its administration continued
always
In several
cases
of remittent
fever where
cool the body, sulphurous acid it in draclim doses every two, three, to the intensity of the heat; the
ether had failed to
phuric
I
succeeded. four
or
happ/ aim05''
greater
usually give hours, according
frequent the repetition of the dosespecially beneficial, and in many condition of the body named by the natives
the heat the more
In remittent fevef it is instances in that
I do not present it as a panacea for every f?lU* 0 of diseased action, but it is a valuable addition to the list those remedies which control animal heat. A fair trial wil prove this to the most sceptical. I was at first led to use it thera*
internal fever.
from
peutically, in
a
finding
list of subftanoes
that it had been
powerful
to
given
a
high plaC?
absorb radiant heat.
I11
sulphuric ether and ammonia take high places ; but sulphurous acid takes a higher place still. It can scarcely be to otherwise than that the substance, which has the power absorb radiant heat in a shut chamber, should also have the power to absorb it when present amongst the bodily tissues.
this list
At any rate, it is not a little remarkable that ammonia, sulphuric ether, and sulphurous acid, which are large absorbers of radiant our
most
heat, are also powerful febrifuges, and that quinine, powerful anteperiodic, is at the same time one of the
few known substances which the spectrum luminous.
can
render the chemical rays in
In 1865, I made an unsuccessful attempt to have a series of experiments carried out by un eminent man in England in trial of this
theory.
it
that all substances which
can)
heat
If it
can
be established are
(and powerful
firmly believe light and already possess
I
over
vital action, then we for the discovery of new remedies. For it would then be the chief end and glory of the physicist to heat and light the theratest through the agency of radiant peutic value of every substance freshly made or discovered by the chemist. The action of every untried remedy on the In this direction, it human tissues could then be predicted.
a
are
also powerful
wonderful
over
machinery
appears to me, we have a glimpse of Howkah, loth January, 18G9.
a
truly
scicntifi medicine.
SULPHUROUS
By Robert I
recently
have
used
Bird,
ACID.
M.D. in
sulphurous acid,
cases
where the
temperature of the body was abnormally high, with a result. A fall in the measured heat of the tissues has
over 24 hours ammonia and sul-
followed its administration continued
always
In several
cases
of remittent
fever where
cool the body, sulphurous acid it in draclim doses every two, three, to the intensity of the heat; the
ether had failed to
phuric
I
succeeded. four
or
happ/ aim05''
greater
usually give hours, according
frequent the repetition of the dosespecially beneficial, and in many condition of the body named by the natives
the heat the more
In remittent fevef it is instances in that
I do not present it as a panacea for every f?lU* 0 of diseased action, but it is a valuable addition to the list those remedies which control animal heat. A fair trial wil prove this to the most sceptical. I was at first led to use it thera*
internal fever.
from
peutically, in
a
finding
list of subftanoes
that it had been
powerful
to
given
a
high plaC?
absorb radiant heat.
I11
sulphuric ether and ammonia take high places ; but sulphurous acid takes a higher place still. It can scarcely be to otherwise than that the substance, which has the power absorb radiant heat in a shut chamber, should also have the power to absorb it when present amongst the bodily tissues.
this list
At any rate, it is not a little remarkable that ammonia, sulphuric ether, and sulphurous acid, which are large absorbers of radiant our
most
heat, are also powerful febrifuges, and that quinine, powerful anteperiodic, is at the same time one of the
few known substances which the spectrum luminous.
can
render the chemical rays in
In 1865, I made an unsuccessful attempt to have a series of experiments carried out by un eminent man in England in trial of this
theory.
it
that all substances which
can)
heat
If it
can
be established are
(and powerful
firmly believe light and already possess
I
over
vital action, then we for the discovery of new remedies. For it would then be the chief end and glory of the physicist to heat and light the theratest through the agency of radiant peutic value of every substance freshly made or discovered by the chemist. The action of every untried remedy on the In this direction, it human tissues could then be predicted.
a
are
also powerful
wonderful
over
machinery
appears to me, we have a glimpse of Howkah, loth January, 18G9.
a
truly
scicntifi medicine.
